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* The 1973-75 animated version of ''[[The Addams Family]]'' put them on the road in a cross between an RV and their Victorian mansion. There was another version in the 1990s, which was essentially a continuation of the then-recent movies. Of course, the live-action sitcom was itself adapted from Charles Addams' print cartoons in ''The New Yorker''.

* ''[[ALF]]'': Something of a [[Prequel]], as it tells of Alf's adventures on Melmac. It even had a [[Spin-Off]], ''Alf Tales''.

* An animated adaptation of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' was planned during the hiatus between the sixth and seventh seasons, but was scrapped. At least one script written for the animated series was recycled for the live-action show ("Him", which uses several tropes usually reserved for animation). One of the Season Eight comic issues had a dream sequence that appeared to be set in the abortive animated AU, with art similar to the released conceptual sketches for it. The five minutes of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnUvZP7-5LM first episode] doing the rounds on Youtube utterly nail the tone of the first season. About the only thing missing was Sarah Michelle Gellar playing Buffy (the actress from the popular XBOX video games reprises the role), but everything from Buffy hitting herself with a stake when showing off to Giles despairing when Buffy misidentifies the cult as "the followers of [[Morgan Freeman]]" is present and accounted for.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has had a few ventures into animation courtesy of the BBCi Web site, among other places.

* ''Jim Henson's [[Muppet Babies]]''.

* Another Jim Henson example: ''[[Fraggle Rock]]''. It started the same year the original puppet version ended.

 

 

* Along with the ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'' aired ''[[The Legend of Zelda (animation)|The Legend of Zelda]]'', based in the Hyrule of the first two games in the Zelda series. It became notorious (and the [[Trope Namer]]) for Link's obnoxious [[Catch Phrase]], "[[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!]]!" Much like [[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link|the second game]], it tends to be a [[Base Breaker]]—people who experienced it back when it was new tend to [[So Bad It's Good|enjoy it more]] than people who became fans because of the later games.

* The ''[[Pac-Man (animation)|Pac-Man]]'' TV series was the first adapted from a video game. It combined elements of ''[[The Flintstones]]'' and ''[[The Smurfs]]'' while retaining some semblance to the video game.

* ''[[Destroy All Humans!]]'' was going to get a CGI animated series on FOX, produced by the producers of the ''[[King of the Hill]]'' series. Nothing has been said since October 2005, but most fans believe it was canned to make way for the game sequels.

* ''[[Donkey Kong]]''

* A brief "animated tribute" to the webcomic ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' was [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyFRBjhqZRg fan-produced] and put on [[YouTube]].

* The newer series of ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' has a combination of regular machinima and animation (by the animator of ''[[Haloid]]''). At a convention, Rooster Teeth screened an experimental short featuring the ''RvB'' guys animated in pencil-and-paper 2D. Whether this was to be a separate project or if bringing in Monty Oum is the realization of a modified form of it is unclear, as nothing much has been said about it since.

 

 

** Parodied again in the Strong Bad Email "[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail181.html webcomic]", in which he shows off what would happen if Secret Collect (a maze game with blocky Atari graphics) and Thy Dungeonman (a text-based adventure game) got animated adaptations in the vein of ''[[Pac-Man (animation)|Pac-Man]]'' and ''[[Captain N]]''. The end result is not pretty, and by that I mean hilarious.

* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w When trouble's about, you'd best watch out for the WATCHMEN!]" This parody appeared in 2009, and highlights what may have been a (damn good) reason why ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'' wasn't made into a movie way back in the 80s... It's hilarious, but the moment one realizes that, back then, this would not have been out of the question for producers in [[The Eighties]] is pure horror for many comic book nerds. Of note are the winking smiley faces, Manhattan's... furry diaper thing, and the fact that everything mentioned in the cast roll call is flat-out wrong.

 

 

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